A face to meet the faces
Subtitle: an anthology of contemporary persona poetry
By: edited by Stacey Lynn Brown and Oliver de la Paz
Edition: First edition.
Publisher: The University Of Akron Press
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Akron, Ohio
Language: eng
Number of pages: 437
ISBN-13: 9781937378127
Subjects: Persona (Literature); POETRY / Anthologies (multiple authors); Poetry; American poetry
Description: "The literary tradition of persona, of writing poems in voices or from perspectives other than the poet's own, is ancient in origin and contemporary in practice. The embodiment of different voices is a moment of true empathy, as the author moves beyond his or her own margins to fully inhabit the character, personality, and mindset of another human being. While there are a great number of poems written in persona, there are no current anthologies that collect and celebrate the diverse writers who work in this mode today. Stacey Lynn Brown and Oliver de la Paz have selected a superb collection of approximately two hundred persona poems. These poems embody characters from popular culture, history, the Bible, literature, mythology, and their diversity is reflective of the wide range of authors working in this genre. The anthology also contains brief explanatory notes written by the poets to help historicize and contextualize their characters and personae"--
Notes: Includes index.